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LINGUISTIC MATERIAL FROM THE TRIBES OF SOUTHERN TEXAS AND NORTHEASTERN MEXICO, Bulletin 127 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1940, softcover. ITEM CONDITION: fair. The text block is in very good condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. Pages are age-toned. There is no bookplate but the signature of a prior owner is written on the front cover. Not a remainder or library item. The green wraps are in fair condition (intact, fading and discoloring, stain on front cover, lightly chipped edges). 9 x 6, 145 pages, 6 ounces XX [from the text] Around the northwestern angle of the Gulf of Mexico, and encircled by tribes belonging to the large and better known linguistic families called Muskhogean, Siouan, Caddoan, Athapascan, Uto-Aztecan, Otomian, and Mayan (the last-named represented by the Huastec), there was early in the sixteenth century a great number of tribes or bands which differed markedly from their neighbors in language and showed great diversity among themselves. These tribes extended from the Mississippi River to the neighborhood of Panuco, Mexico, on the south and Monclova, Coahuila, on the west. The original linguistic classifications of Powell and Orozco y Berra ranged these tribes under 10 stocks, Natchesan, Tonikan, Chitimachan, Attacapan, Tonkawan, Karankawan, Coahuiltecan, Tamaulipecan, Janambrian, and Olivean. Later researches, however, have shown that Natchesan is remotely connected with the Muskhogean family and that Tonikan, Chitimachan, and Attacapan are mutually related, while Olivean was the language of a single tribe converted in 1544 by a Franciscan missionary, Father Olmos, and drawn to southern Tamaulipas from their old home, apparently somewhere in Texas. It seems certain from this that the Olive belonged to one of the other stocks mentioned though, for want of any specimen of their speech, we shall probably never know which. The language of the Tonkawan Indians has been carefully studied by Prof. Harry Hoijer of the University of Chicago, whose recently printed sketch is now available to students, and will be followed in time by a dictionary. Tunica and Chitimacha are being made the subjects of intensive investigations by Dr. Morris Swadesh and Dr. Mary R. Haas, and all of the available material in Atakapa, now wholly extinct, was recently published as Bulletin 108 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. XX Linguistic material from the Indian languages formerly spoken in southern Texas and adjacent sections of Mexico, including Coahuilteco, from the Manual of Bartholome Garcia, a vocabulary from the mission records of San Francisco Solano, vocabularies of Comecrudo and Cotoname collected by Dr. Albert S. Gatschet, material in Maratino, from Father Santa Maria, and Rarankawa from the vocabularies of Dr. A. S. Gatschet, and those of Bérenger and the brothers Talon, as published by MM. le Baron Marc de Villiers du Terrage and Paul Rivet. Assembled and edited by John R. Swanton. Seller Inventory # 002878
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